None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.